The Ethic of Control: Margaret Sanger, Eugenics, and Planned Parenthood by Angela Franz2/25/09 The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), despite coming under frequent attacks by pro-lifers, remains one of the most respected and well-funded organizations in the country. Add the Internation...

Filipino blogger and writer Charles Tan has been a quiet but persistent force in the online world, producing quality interviews with some of the western world’s top science fiction and fantasy authors while working to promote speculative fiction in his own country. Tell me a little bit about yours...

I didn’t mean interval encoding outperforms WAH, I agree that WAH or EWAH could be the best scheme for bitmap indexes. I have read Wu’s ACM paper(38 pages) and it really makes sense. If you have a high selectivity query, your effort should be small. But with interval coding, your effort ...

Gnocchi with Pork Ragú Dominic Armato Cleveland's been getting a lot of play as an underappreciated food town lately, and based on my recent experience, I'm disinclined to doubt those who say so. We've had two great meals at Lola and a wonderful welcome to Cambodian at Phnom Penh. We did some old s...

The Struggle to Feed America's Nouveau Needy By Nick Turse The message is simple. Ever more Americans need food they can't afford. As tough economic times take their toll, increasing numbers of Americans are on tightened budgets and, in some cases, facing outright hunger. As a result, they m...

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the Crown prosecutors, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. Franchises are often very fragile things - do it right, and you end up with muc...

Looks like the shows are all about money, money, money. At least it looks that way with two appearances by Peter Orszag, who heads the Office of Management and Budget. (Note: the guy is pretty damn smart and also writes a blog at OMB.) I can tell you this much: Both John Boehner and Eric Cantor will...

Today was a special one-off Frightfest event, which saw the return of the festival to it’s seedbed cinema, The Prince Charles, on Leicester Place in London. There are four separate Film 4 Frightfests a year – a full weekender in August, a Glasgow satellite event, an all-nighter at the ICA and, f...

LIKE all businesses at the moment, the airline industry is having to tighten its belt as well as look to tempt passengers to take to the skies. If you are looking to catch a flight to France then now might be a good time to get online and compare prices as it appears many airlines have dramatically ...

Rain and Thunder has kindly made this interview available for us to share with you. You may also download it as a PDF (33KB). Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of...